0p0 Chapter 192 The Village Made Money
Chapter 192 The Village Made Money
The braised meat was ready at six in the morning. After his uncle and his friends took the meat away, Hou Xiaoge looked at his mother and saw that her fever had gone down and she was sleeping soundly.
He didn't help with making the pancakes, and he couldn't sleep at this time, so he just made breakfast. He felt that his skills would be ruined if he didn't do anything for a long time.
"Sister, what do you want for breakfast? I'll make it." Hou Xiaoge walked into the kitchen and asked.
"Whatever, anything is fine." The three said in unison.
"Well, it's useless to ask." Hou Xiaoge quietly left the kitchen.
"Since I have a cold and fever, I'd better cook some millet porridge!" Hou Xiaoge started to make porridge in the cave.
The dishes were made by Hou Xiaoge, so of course they were delicious, such as spicy cabbage and spicy and sour shredded potatoes.
These two dishes are the best to go with rice for northerners and are their favorite in winter.
"Little boy, it's time to eat!"
After cooking, Hou Xiaoge returned to the cave and called his brother to get up.
The family finished breakfast and it was already daybreak. Today, my mother was not feeling well, so Hou Xiaoge could not go out and had to stay at home to cook and entertain people.
Hou Yanzi and her family had a delicious dinner last night. After the roosters in the distant village crowed three times, she quickly got up to heat up the leftover porridge for her husband.
After seeing her man off, Hou Yanzi did not eat but chose to continue sleeping. Sleeping in the winter saves energy and makes her feel hungry more slowly.
Li Dagou had eaten and drunk enough for two days, and he even had energy to walk. He was full of confidence in his future life. In the morning, he chatted and laughed with his co-workers as they rushed to Hou Xiaoge's house.
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Three days passed in a blink of an eye. After digging the well that day, the people cleaned up the mud and water from the well, and piled the remaining bricks for building the well wall in the corner. The well of Hou Xiaoge's family was officially dug.
"My two cousins and uncles have worked hard these days. You work efficiently and cleanly. This little bit is a reward for you." For the last meal, Hou Xiaoge treated them to braised pork, and after the meal, he gave each of them a pound of braised pork.
"Heiwa, you are too polite." My cousin's uncle said politely with a smile.
Several people were so happy when they saw the fragrant braised meat, but they still wanted to express their gratitude, after all, these things were extra gifts from others.
"You did a good job and didn't delay. It's worth the meat. Take it! Go back and satisfy your family." Hou Xiaoge waved his hand and told them not to be polite.
Since the host said so, the few people naturally stopped being polite and wrapped the braised meat in the oil paper given by Hou Xiaoge and put it in their arms.
After everyone left, Li Dagou and several other people who were working outside the village returned to Hou Xiaoge's house.
"Young man from the Hou family, we want to ask you for a job. It doesn't matter if we don't make money, as long as we can have food to eat at home." As a representative, Li Dagou bowed to Hou Xiaoge and said stutteringly.
Hou Xiaoge didn't expect that these people would do this, but he could understand it. After all, his two uncles from his cousin's family had benefited from the Hou family recently.
A few days ago, the two cousins talked to Hou Xiaoge about kneading dough. Hou Xiaoge came back and discussed it with his uncle. Finally, they decided to hire the two aunts from his cousin's family to help knead the dough.
However, due to the recipe of the pancake filling, the dough was kneaded in Wang Maimiao's cave.
The treatment of the two was not bad, 1 cent per day, and two meals were provided.
With the addition of two new laborers, the output of cakes has increased, and now we can produce more than 2,000 cakes a day.
With more cakes, there will be more wholesale share, so naturally we have to take care of our own people.
So after my cousin and his two uncles finished their work of digging the well, they could seamlessly move on and sell the cakes wholesale directly from the Hou family.
The people digging the well naturally saw this situation and were envious.
After a few days of contact, they all realized that this young man from the Hou family was quite capable.
Just now my cousin's two uncles were in a difficult situation and now they naturally turned back to ask for help.
Hou Xiaoge couldn't say that he was disgusted by the requests for help from several people, he just felt a little emotional.
After all, too many people have asked him about this in the past few months, and it was only in recent days that the candied haws business in the village came to an end.
"Uncle Big Dog, you should just call me Hei Wa! Stop bowing to me.
Although our blood relationship is somewhat distant, Aunt Yan Zi and I are still relatives within the fifth degree of mourning. You are really embarrassing me by bowing like this.
Well, you guys go back first! The village should have a snack these days, I'll talk to the village and sell it wholesale to you, and you can sell it when the time comes.
It's the New Year, and food is selling well. You can work harder and earn enough money for the New Year." Hou Xiaoge smiled bitterly and stopped several people to bow, then thought for a while and said to them.
"Hei, Heiwa, let me thank you on behalf of your Aunt Yan Zi." When Li Dagou heard that Hou Xiaoge had found a way out for him and the others, he bowed excitedly repeatedly.
"Okay, go back quickly! I'll go and do some work for you too." Hou Xiaoge waved his hand and sent them away.
"Heiwa, it's great to have a well at home. Just turn the windlass and the water will come out. There's no need to queue." Looking at his own well, Wang Maimiao's eyes were full of joy.
"Well! I'll find a stone slab to cover it later, and tell Tongtong and the others not to go near the well." Hou Xiaoge instructed his cheap mother while looking at his younger brother and little cousin running in the yard.
"understood!"
After arranging his family affairs, Hou Xiaoge staggered to the village workshop with his hands behind his back.
There was no wall outside the original cave, but now people have been hired to build a wall, and it looks much safer.
"Fifth Master, you're drinking!" Looking at a few old men drinking tea at the entrance of the cave, Hou Xiaoge went over to greet them with a smile.
"It's okay, I'm getting by! By the way, Heiwa, did you ask someone to help me get some hawthorns? When can they get them?" The old man asked, putting down his teacup.
“Didn’t I say it? After the New Year, let’s let the Yanhuang League help with the acquisition recently!” Hou Xiaoge spread his hands helplessly.
Hou Xiaoge planted thirty hawthorn trees in the space. Even with the spiritual spring water for irrigation, eight days would only be equivalent to one and a half years in the outside world. It would take at least the end of the year for the trees to bloom and bear fruit.
"Oh! The Yanhuang Alliance doesn't care about the money they get from buying Hawthorn, they just released the news and we still have to collect it ourselves, which is too slow.
There are less than 7,000 kilograms in the cave now, and less than 300 kilograms are purchased every day. Based on the supply of 1,000 kilograms per day, there will be no stock in ten days.
It's really frustrating that we're out of stock just after we've made some money." Master Qi also sighed.
Now the village ships out 1,000 kilograms of fruit snowballs every day, with a daily net profit of more than 70 oceans. After six or seven days, except for the cost of purchasing the fruit, the village has recovered its original investment.
Now, apart from drinking tea and watching over the workshop, the old men would urge the elders and villagers who come to the village to purchase fruits quickly.
In fact, there are quite a lot of fruits, such as apples, oranges, and pears, which are all major fruits.
But after a period of testing, we found that oranges, apples and pears would not last long after being stored for four or five days when made into snowballs, so hawthorn had to be used for the longest preservation time.
So the people in the village who make candied haws are not too worried, but the snowball workshop is a bit on the decline because there are not enough goods.
"I came here today to teach the villagers about another food, sweet potato candy. I think everyone must have heard of it," said Hou Xiaoge after sitting down and taking a sip of tea.
"I know that, but we don't have much. I heard that there is more sweet potato sugar in the south, but we mostly have malt sugar here." Mr. Qi nodded.
“Well! The hawthorn business in the village is too short-lived, so I plan to teach the villagers a snack made with sweet potato candy and popcorn.
This snack can also be packaged as a gift and sold. It can be stored for three months in winter and will definitely be popular during the Chinese New Year." Hou Xiaoge said with a smile.
"Heiwa, what's wrong with your brain? Why are you so smart?" Uncle Wu said excitedly.
"Oh! It's not difficult to make sweet potato candy. The difficult part is not only knowing how to make it, but also having a channel to sell it. No one has taken the initiative yet.
We are relying on the Yanhuang League to do business well. If we fight alone, others will eat up everything we have. ” Hou Xiaoge explained, shaking his head.
"Oh! That's right. If your son hadn't established a relationship with the Yanhuang Alliance, it would be difficult for us to do business." Several old men nodded in agreement.
"Well! As long as the workshop can be stable in the long term, it can pay 10% to 20% of the profits to the Yanhuang Alliance as a share.
As long as we can make money safely, we can just treat them as shareholders. ” Hou Xiaoge did not suffer any loss by providing the prescription, and was ready to make a fortune from the village.
"Yes, this is fine. As long as the Yanhuang League can protect our village's industry, it doesn't matter if we give him two tiers of shares." Fifth Master slammed the table and shouted.